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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>To patch the kernel on a FreeBSD system:<br /> <br /> # Download the patch to a directory, say /tmp.<br /> # cd /usr/src<br /> # patch &lt; /path/to/patch<br /> # cd sys/i386/conf<br /> # Run config on the kernel configuration file for the machine you want patch.<br /> # cd to the compile directory.<br /> # make clean &amp;&amp; make depend &amp;&amp; make<br /> # If the machine has secure levels turned on (not a bad idea), you will have to reboot, and input &quot;boot -s&quot; at the FreeBSD boot prompt to go into single user mode.<br /> # At the prompt, cd back into the kernel compilation directory, and run &quot;make install&quot;.<br /> # Reboot, and make sure everything comes back up properly.</div>

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